The Secret History : From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch

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Author: Tartt, Donna Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 27 May 1993 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 640 pages131 x 196 x 29 | 438g THE B ESTSELLER THAT DEFINED AN AGEEverything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come together---my future, my past, the whole of my life---and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.Haunting, compelling and brilliant The TimesIrresistible and seductive GuardianEnthralling... Forceful, cerebral and impeccably controlled New York Times Show more